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Sunrise Mart
Categories: Food Specialty Food Restaurants Japanese Specialty Food, Japanese [Edit]
494 Broome StNew York, NY 10012
Neighborhood: SoHo
(212) 219-0033
- Nearest Transit:
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Canal St (1, 2)
Canal St (A, C, E)
Spring St (A, C, E)
- Hours:
Mon-Sun 10 am - 10 pm
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Price Range:
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$$
- Good for Groups:
- No
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Beer & Wine Only
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Ambience:
- Casual
- Has TV:
- No
- Caters:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
97 reviews for Sunrise Mart
Review Highlights
"But it is the fries and wasabi mayo that seals the deal."
(in 5 reviews)
"I absolutely love the bento boxes."
(in 14 reviews)
"Upstairs (with the mini rice cookers), there are more seats."
(in 4 reviews)
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96 reviews in English
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Review from anna z.
Manhattan, NY
12/11/2011
Great place to pick up lunch in the area during the week.
Favs:
1. the shrimp or fried chicken covered in egg over rice or any of the other hot food options at the back
2. the yummy Japanese style baked bread and the tiramusi (just the right level of sweetness)
3. the Meiji chocolate they stock that just melts in your mouth
Cons: 10 dollar credit card minimum, sometimes lunchtime lines can be crazy -
Review from Michael W.
New York, NY
10/24/2011 1 Check-in Here
Looking for Japanese food but can't make it to St. Marks or the Mitsuwa in Jersey? Then look no further, there is a Sunrise in SoHo! Now it might not be enormous, but they have what you need. It's also smaller then the location in the East Village, but hey, it's SoHo. What do you expect?
Over at Sunrise, you'll find your typical selection. Don't expect to see a huge selection of produce though. I'd recommend coming here if you're looking for a quick lunch/drink, or some random groceries. For me, I can shop around SoHo, grab a drink and some Kewpie at Sunrise, and be on my way! Aside from groceries, they do sell rice cookers and misc house ware upstairs in their little 2nd floor nook.
If you shop like a 5 year old child, then this place is for you. They have all the Japanese candy and snacks to help rot your teeth to your heart's content!
Note: their pre made food is actually decent. For a quick snack or lunch, you can always grab something here and sit down at their ~6 tables that they have near the cashier. Yes, I love being able to go to Mitsuwa or Nijiya and go to town on a full selection of food, but Sunrise will do just the job, minus the long trek out to the supermarket. -
Review from Cecilia Z.
New York, NY
9/15/2011
This Sunrise Mart is much smaller than the one in East Village. Unfortunately, the variety of groceries and hot and cold prepared foods here are also much more limited. There are quite a few tables in the front however, so it seems like it caters to the working lunch crowd.
Nonetheless, I still like to pop in here once in a while when I'm shopping around soho for a drink and snack. I love that they carry all kinds of asian bottled drinks like aloe, calpico, and flavored teas. -
Review from Jeffrey K.
CANAL STREET, NY
2/1/2012
Prepared food is fresh, so is produce. Sashimi and sushi are good. Really appreciate having them in the area. Prices are great.
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Review from Lee L.
9/1/2011
Sunrise Mart on Broome has the best sashimi deal in town, $5 for a nicely sized filet of salmon sashimi, pre-sliced, plus they'll give you the wasabi and soy sauce at the counter if you ask for it. The trick is to buy the sashimi from the grocery section, not the "food-to-go" section where they sell a nearly identical sashimi plate for double or triple the price.
Another trick is to get the grilled salmon wraps, which give you probably double the salmon compared to the salads and just as much lettuce. I actually disassemble the wraps into a salad once I bring it back to my office!
Also, at 99 cents for a one pound tofu brick, I think they are actually the cheapest tofu in town short of bargaining for 8PM specials in Chinatown.
Maybe I'm just a sucker for Japanese grocery stores because I also give Cafe Zaiya 5-stars. -
Review from Laura P.
New York, NY
12/7/2011
They've gotten a lot more expensive over the years. I remember when I used to come here in high school and things were at least 1-2 dollars less expensive than what it is today. I think that is really drastic considering you can get everything much cheaper in chinatown for the same thing. Or even taking the Mitsuwa bus from Times Square to the japanese supermarket. Their food isn't that great except for the fries and even when I went there around 4pm, they didn't even have any cooked food out. No fries - nothing. One of their cashiers is totally pronouncing his greetings wrong and isn't being corrected on it. I don't know. I swear they were much better 5 years back.
For 3 pieces of powder candy - 2.49.
For 5 pieces of non-fresh dango - 2.99
Expensive as hell and it wasn't even remotely as great as I thought it would be. -
Review from Kath B.
Brooklyn, NY
Updated - 8/3/2011
I love this place. I can get calpico, coffee milk, live and ready made foods, and sauces that i cant find anywhere else.
The cashiers are always nice and the space is quite good. Variety and variety never disappoints. I like this location than the other one down by 3rd ave (no elevator to go up, no hassle.)1 Previous Review:
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5/11/2011
I like that you can get live foods and packaged at the same time. :)
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Review from Michael C.
New York, NY
3/13/2011
Sunrise is a neat little Japanese market that I really only frequent for prepared foods. There's a microwave and little tables that let you chow down on a fast, healthy tasting meal.
I'd imagine if I lived in the area, I'd use this for my Asian grocery needs, but for now, yes to their chicken cutlet! $10 credit card minimum. -
Review from Toan N.
New York, NY
10/26/2011
Best french fries in the city. Get the spicy mayo as your dipping sauce. Friendly staff!
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Review from Sharon T.
Woodside, NY
5/23/2011 1 Check-in Here
What a cute little market. For some time now, I've been trying to compare Japanese markets, which one is better than which. And I just can't decide.
You can't imagine a cheap market like Sunrise on the side corner of upscale shops like Tommy Hilfigher, Ralph Lauren, Anthoropologie, and all those pricey shops. Just.....can't.
I love how they have little small shelves behind each for different stuff. I'm just dying right now, to try their rolls. A dragon roll for $8? You're kidding me. I'm so in next time. And I wish I could just jump over the counter and hug the cashiers. They're so adorable! -
Review from Vicky C.
Brooklyn, NY
3/31/2011
Soho had a lot of restaurants to offer. But none that would allow for my measly 30 minute break. This was when I was working in sales.
Sunrise Mart was my light. It has tiny portions of average to yummy (the yummy really are just the many different types of crackers, chips and cakes, all of which are highly processed) food to fill my stomach.
Too bad that since I buy with my eyes I tend to get tons of tiny portions of food (crackers, chips and cakes....and yes all at once) ending with a near coma status for the rest of the day. Everyday. For about half a year. I had to quit since I gained weight and no one likes a fat saleswoman. -
Review from World T.
New York, NY
3/14/2011
This small Japanese grocery holds a fond place in my heart.
Let me start by saying that I secretly wish they'd close for a month or two and renovate the entire space to make it more clean and bright, but, until then, I still go once a week to buy some essentials ....They have $1.99 organic mushrooms (maitaki, etc.) that cost $19 at Whole Foods....Their vegetables, in general, are clean and sold in small quantities for cheap, if that's what you like.....I also love to buy their wakame (dried seaweed), dry noodles (soba/udon/ramen), and sauces to make my own delicious soup at home.....They have about 4 cases of frozen food, including dumplings, fish cake products, udon noodles, etc...
Their snack food selection is enormous from packaged cookies and candies to rice cracker stuff with small dried fish in snack-size packages. yum! I carry them around the city in my bag for when I get hungry.
The drink selection is also fun to explore. Japan's beverage industry is much more innovative than the US one, creating all kinds of gimmicky flavors and bottles....Also, don't forget to try the mochi beach cakes in the drink section. I call them babies bottoms because that's what they feel like....baby skin...ok, sounds crazy, but it's true.....
The seating area at the front is convenient for a snack or meal, but, again, could use some sprucing up....very high-school-cafeteria feel to it.....I avoid their deli sushi and soups that others claim have made them sick....I go purely for the packaged goods. Just to reiterate, their prices are really great in comparison with other American grocery stores like Whole Foods. I never feel anything is over-priced except for maybe their pre-made sushi bento boxes for carry-out lunch. -
Review from Matthew L.
San Francisco, CA
12/12/2010
Came here a few times a few weeks ago to fill my appetite with some pretty well priced, pretty tasty Japanese foods. The set up reminded me a lot of convenience stores in Japan, selling just about anything from cooked foods, packaged goods, candies, beauty products, as well as frozen/raw foods, and produce. It's pretty much a one-stop-shopping place for any ingredients you might need if you were to cook a Japanese meal.
My friend described this place as the Japanese "Woorijip" and it's pretty much the same, but even MORE since it's a market (woorijip being solely an eatery)...but Sunrise Mart is equally as cheap.
Just a warning to you all, if you don't have cash, you can use your credit card with a MINIMUM of $10 charge. So, if you don't have any green bills on you, you'll have to find an ATM Or charge $10 on your C/C.
Why do I like this place:
- lots of onigiri (love!)
- lots of hi-chew (mm, lots of unique flavors)
- mochi products (delicious!0
- Japanese snack foods (fun, delicious, and mmm!)
- friendly Japanese staff
Overall, I like this place. Ohh, they also sell my favorite ito-en tea, the Jasmin flavor. Yum!!! -
Review from Eric F.
Brooklyn, NY
12/1/2010
Two nights ago I had a stomach cramp. I didn't think too much of it for the first hour or so, until it got worse and I went to bed early. By the middle of the night I was throwing up dinner. I figured I'd feel better by the morning. Unfortunately, yesterday, I felt terrible. I was rundown, achy, had the the chills and my appetite was gone, so I stayed home from work.
Today, after waking up late, I realized that I felt much better, if not still a little weak, and decided to come into work. After checking my email, I went over to a friend's desk to say hi. Not getting too close, I told him I might still be contagious. "You weren't here yesterday?" he asked. Turns out he wasn't either, and furthermore, he had had the exact same symptoms. Our common variable? The spicy tuna roll from Sunrise.
I've eaten here a ton of times before, and have usually enjoyed it. It seemed convenient, if a little overpriced for take-out sushi. After this though, I won't be back.
While this review concerns the prepared food at Sunrise, there is also a lot of authentic and hard to find Japanese and Asian foodstuffs available. If you need to get some of those things, it might be the best place to find them. Unfortunately, I won't be going back, because once a store sells you something that makes you ill, it's a little hard to trust the integrity of their other products. -
Review from Jacquelyn S.
Brooklyn, NY
8/9/2011 3 Check-ins Here
my favorite things at sunrise mart:
1. grilled salmon (or chicken) wrap for $7.99! lasts for 2 days of lunch.
2. kirin 6-pack for $5
3. jars of kimchi that i can actually finish in less than 6 months ($3.50 and $7)
4. the aisle leading up to checkout stocked with all kinds of snacks, like snap pea crisps, pan-ya green tea shortbread cookies, and chocolate covered almonds.
5. the really nice paintings of vegetables they had hanging from the ceiling (might've taken them down recently - boo)
6. two freezers full of gyoza varieties
7. bento boxes that offer brown rice options!
too bad some items are really really overpriced... and they run out of the salmon wrap really early. but that won't stop me going here for a quick lunch! -
Review from Caroline C.
Brooklyn, NY
8/4/2010 25 Check-ins Here
I feel like a kid going through all the Japanese cookies, candy, chocolate, and even the Japanese drinks! Sunrise Mart carries a lot!
I consider going here as a lunch "treat" whenever I'm having a bad day at work, I retreat here. My routine includes going upstairs where you get plenty of space to chill and have your lunch in peace.
My favorite lunch meals include the grilled chicken wrap, chicken tender wrap, and their fries with wasabi mayo!!
A major plus - Prices are surprisingly reasonable. I was expecting to pay a lot, especially due to the location. I love this location way better than the St. Mark's. The East Village location is too cramped and you can't find anything there.
A must go!! -
Review from James F.
Brooklyn, NY
9/15/2011
Gross! Found a Bug in my salad! A dead lady bug was waiting for me at the bottom of my chicken salad. Disgusting. Also Gotta be the only place in soho with a credit card minimum. Its not Williamsburg so stop acting stingy. Never returning ever.
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Review from Kassy M.
Brooklyn, NY
I prefer this Sunrise Mart over their other location by St. Mark's. It seems more spacious, less hectic, and they have two dining areas (right by the entrance and another upstairs).
Places like Sunrise Mart are extremely essential to the Japanese community living in the city. Where else would I get all the necessary condiments, spices and ingredients that I need to attempt to recreate what my mother flawlessly cooked up for so many years?
Whatever you need, they'll have it. They have a whole selection of Japanese beverages and snacks, which are 10x more delicious than anything an American company could create. I was thrilled to get a can of JCC Coffee here the other day...and TAKENOKO NO SATO! -
Review from Whitney H.
Manhattan, NY
1/9/2011
Great spot that has all of basics. I was able to find everything that I was looking for in one fell swoop - from shiso leaves to ume paste & plums and my favorite seaweed seasoning.
Highly recommended! -
Review from Ron C.
5/8/2011 1 Check-in Here
I love this place! I've been going here since I moved to NYC. At times it feels hidden from all the shops in SoHo. I sometimes forget that it's here. They have a great selection of snack and drinks. Even pre-made sushi that you can eat on the go. This is just like it's brother near St Marks. I always have an awesome experience here.
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Review from Corina L.
Queens, NY
5/13/2010
Oh-knee-gee-ree!
Sunrise Mart is one of my favorite places to get onigiri, obviously because one bite in &I'm instantly taken away to the parking lot of Lawson's near my house in Japan where all the jappy kids make fun of the old men reading hentai through the store window. One way to piss me off is to make me a cutie onigiri triangle with white people rice that's drier than your mother. Not here! Take everyone's advice and grab some fries with wasabi mayo sauce, baaaangin! It's no Mitsuwa, but it'll do :). -
Review from Andrew M.
Brooklyn, NY
Updated - 12/29/2010
I don't know why I decided to go here again. Maybe it's the Circle of No Restaurants in SoHo. Maybe because I'm nice and give second chances. Or maybe because I've actually had a good experience here in the past.
The crumbed chicken in gravy and rice just LOOKS so good, and SMELLS so good - every time I return to the office, the smell turns heads.
But this time, the grudge is permanent. I bit into a few of the crumbed chicken slices and it was like they hadn't even bothered to separate the meat from the rest of the chicken. They'd just sliced a full cross-section of the chicken that included the cartilidge and bone and goodness-knows-what-else goes on inside a chicken. Ever seen that old movie The Cell with J-Lo where they slice up the horse? It was like that, except half it was already in my mouth.
Of course, everything in a chicken is actually edible if prepared correctly. But this wasn't. For the second time running (pardon the pun), I had the trots for the next day.
Avoid anything here that claims to be freshly prepared unless you have highly trained stomach acid.1 Previous Review: Show all »
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6/6/2010
Horribly overpriced food and drinks, and must also be the only place that checks every $5 and $10… Read more »
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Review from Andrew D.
Brooklyn, NY
4/29/2011 9 Check-ins Here
Great Japanese grocery store and lunch spot. I absolutely love the bento boxes. Yesterday i had the Japanese style hamburger and it was delicious in the tangy barbecue sauce. I slo liked the addition of a piece of chicken katsu on top of rice to throw something different into the mix.
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Review from Daryll H.
New York, NY
8/28/2010
Not worth comparing this to the East Village one -- this one is more like a giant bodega, whereas the EV one is more like a mini supermarket. (Ok, I realize that maybe that's just two ways of saying the same thing. Just go with it.)
I went here for beverages. They had almost all of the standard teas I found in vending machines in Tokyo, as well as most of the japanese export beers. They actually had Ginga Kogen, which I didn't realize was exported (don't bother, it's not good in Tokyo on tap, I can't imagine it's good in a bottle in new york), as well as one of the Echigo beers.
Anyway, I left with a backpack full of tea for what seemed to me to be a reasonable price. No complaints. Other reviewers comments that people were mean or whatever seemed unfounded; one of the staff spent a lot of time with a confused man who wanted to argue about the caffeine content of green tea.. -
Review from Martina Z.
New York, NY
4/14/2009
At Sunrise Mart you'll find a nice selection of meat, fish, fresh vegetables and fruit, along with perplexing edible objects with no nutritional value. You'll be seduced by the exuberant array of prepared food, kitchen utensils, hair care products and the panoply of Japanese beverages.
Everything on display is reasonably priced and designed to hook you up.
But what makes me climb those steps, pull that heavy door and cross the threshold is the GREEN TEA DAIFUKU box, which carries 4 pale green rice cakes. More specifically, Daifuku is a spherical blend of bean paste, sweet rice flour, egg yolk, green tea and sugar.
Delicious. And, yes, I'm on a high-calorie diet ... -
Review from Timofei G.
New York, NY
12/11/2010
Good for a nutritious, if pricey, lunch or dinner on the go. (A meal will cost $8-16.)
Ready for takeout are decent sushi, healthy salads and wraps, and less-healthy fried chicken and eggs over rice. They also have ramen and udon soup made-to-order, plus rice burgers and fries with wasabi mayo.
Japanese groceries are also available that you will not find any place else, and, compared to Whole Foods or Gourmet Garage, are ridiculously cheap. (I think they must use the pre-packaged food to subsidize the Japanese groceries.)
Rounding this out is an impressively broad array of Japanese food-related products, from mochi to pet toys, from sashimi fillets to rice cookers, and of course a complete selection of instant noodles, which can be prepared in the store for $0.25 with some boiling water.
A persistent majority of the customers is Japanese despite the Soho location, which I take as a vote of confidence since some of them must travel some distance to get to this store. -
Review from Megan C.
9/25/2009
I love this spot. Was in the elevator heading to work the other day and smelled the fries from this place in one of the girls lunch bags. They smelled amazing!! Loads of Japanese treats here and almost bought the green tea ice cream glad I didn't. Everything else I've ever had here was pretty good.
Date Rating: 2
Pick up Scale: 4 (great place to meet Japanese traditional food fans)
Strong Suggestion: be adventurous try something you can't read the packaging on. -
Review from sean k.
New York, NY
2/4/2010 1 Check-in Here
If you need anything Japanese that you can't find at Whole Foods or any other grocery stores, Sunrise Mart WILL have it. I loved this place.
I went here to get supplies to make sushi at home since NOBODY had a sushi roller. I got everything here, fish, masago, sauces, rice wine, rice, and of course, a SUSHI ROLLER! Lol I went on quite the hunt to find one, and they had them for $1!
Of course, I couldn't read 90% of the labels on anything, but an employee seemed very happy to help me around the store and help me out with what I needed to get. She guided me around, with ease.
Can't wait until I have to restock on sushi supplies JUST so I have an excuse to go back here!Listed in: My favorite places of this…
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Review from Ed U.
8/2/2006 1 photo
Right across the street from the original location for the wonderful Broadway Panhandler (now moved to the Village) is quite a surprise, a Japanese market that is funky and functional, clean and well-stocked. I'm so used to the haphazard organization of most like markets that exist in ethnic neighborhoods, including my hometown's Japantown. But this is SOHO, so clearly image is important too. It's a clean space impeccably shelving a variety of edible items in a style that would not look out of place at Dean & Deluca.
There's also a large refrigerated area that carries all sorts of delicious take-out Japanese food, bento boxes galore and saran-wrapped packages of sushi and sashimi. I also noticed a huge selection of Japanese cookies, crackers and chocolate items and probably the broadest collection of idiosyncratic flavored Pocky products I have ever seen. The Japanese staff is youthful and dressed fairly trendy, but it does not preclude them from being serviceable in the least. It's so popular that there is another store in the East Village on Stuyvesant Street near 3rd. This is definitely a cool place to drop by if you are in the neighborhood.Listed in: Start Spreadin' da Food, I'm…
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Review from John W.
East Elmhurst, NY
2/12/2007
Japanese Market
I stumbled upon this place over the weekend, and I think I've found my Mitsuwa substitution, since I do not have a car to drive me all the way to Mitsuwa. Even though there is no substitute for Mitsuwa!
Inside you can shop around for alot of different types of Japanese groceries. There were alot of snacks, condiments, fresh groceries, everything you need to prepare dinner for the night. I actually like this place much better than JAS Mart, as it looks cleaner, more organized and has alot more to offer.
Even though I did not buy any, the food cooked at their mini food court smelled and looked really good! The sushi looked very fresh too! -
Review from Fahd A.
Brooklyn, NY
7/19/2011
This is a great store with lots and lots of good and affordable grocery item for making Japanese food. Plus the staff here is extremely helpful. I like making Sushi rolls and I went to this particular Sunrise Mart. Excellent selection. Plus the staff was willing to help me figure out the best way to make Sushi rolls.
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Review from Ro N.
New York, NY
9/24/2007
I love this place, but I hate this location! The food stinks here-I prefer the one in East Village.
I got the noodles with shrimp in here that sort of resemble shrimp lo mein.
It lacked taste and I tried to save it with some Sriracha----but these noodles were hopeless.
I saw they had shaved ice with azuki beans and I have been craving this dessert for the longest time.
(I was soooooooooooooooooooo excited!)
I decided to order one, but I knew I made a mistake when the azuki beans came out of a tube!
She shaved the ice into a long cup and squeeze out the azuki beans on the very top of the freshly shaved ice.
(Not aesthetically pleasing! Because it just looked like caca on a bed of shaved ice!)
I told her it looks crazy and I just can't! I asked why didn't she layered it. Because the point of this dessert is to eat the beans with the ice. I would have to eat all the beans before I get to the shaved ice.
Why would I want to eat just regular unflavored ice by itself?
I would think twice on getting prepared food here. East Village location is 10x better! -
Review from Elizabeth B.
Washington, DC
3/18/2009
I love going here for lunch. My friend works in the area and whenever I meet up with him for a quick bite, I insist we come here. It is 1/3 cafe, 1/3 grocery and 1/3 video rental/mini cheeseburger eraser/hello kitty mask store.
Their tuna roll is fresh and delish, one of the best I have had. But it is the fries and wasabi mayo that seals the deal. YUM, YUM, YUM, they are crispy and hot, maybe better then pomme frites. Yeah, I said it.
Great selection of bottled juices too. -
Review from tricia b.
Jersey City, NJ
8/29/2008
My cousin and I were tired from walking and my sneakers were killing me so we went inside to buy something cold to drink and to sit down for a few minutes. I was looking at the sno-cone machines that were on sale. Very tempting. There were also the large boxes of those koala cookies with the chocolate inside. I want to come back, but I'm afraid I'll just get lost like I usually do whenver I go into a side street in soho.
Since my feet really hurt I didn't go around the entire store, but what I saw interested me. Mochi, box lunches, and milk teas. I honestly did not know that you could get milk teas in bottles. My cousin got this fizzy melon drink that is difficult to open. The opening is closed, so you have to press on it really hard with this plastic thing. Since I failed in assisting her, she asked a cashier guy to help her out.
Speaking of which, I have unfinished milk tea in the fridge. I'll go finish that now. -
Review from Umami Y.
Los Angeles, CA
10/9/2006
Sunrise Mart was my virtual kitchen.
Rather than cook, many days I'd pop around the corner from my apartment and just eat at Sunrise. Easier, faster, and cheaper than cooking at home. The prepared foods are great, including the bento boxes. And you have a host of great Japanese beverages to accompany your meal. The spacious seated dining area seems perpetually sunny and also includes a microwave to heat up your food as you wish.
The grocery section is surprisingly comprehensive given the small space, and seems particuarly geared to on-the-go urban-dwellers.
From a neighborhood resident's point of view, Sunrise Mart is the most practical and convenient grocery store around. -
Review from Marc M.
New York, NY
6/27/2006
While not quite a Mitsuwa, Sunrise Mart does well with their limited floor space and stocks just about everything you could possibly want from a Japanese grocery store, including Japanese house wares and cosmetics.
Though the grocery is a great resource to have nearby, I'd have to say that the real draw is for the variety of prepared foods they offer for lunch. All the lunchy prepared foods such as noodle soups, salads, sandwiches, fries (with wasabi mayo), rice bowls, sushi, and omusubi (rice balls), are available, but my favorite offerings are their bento boxes.
Bento boxes, for those uninitiated, are "boxes" sectioned off, with rice, 1 main dish and other small compartments, each one filled with a variety of different savory okazu. They usually have about 5 different kinds of bento boxes with everything from gyoza (potstickers) to meatballs, to Korean style beef.
Homely and refrigerated, this isn't top quality restaurant fare (still better than most), but the food is prepared daily and for the price (bento boxes are about $6.50 and they have items starting at just a few dollars), there just isn't a better fast food option out there. I usually walk out of there stuffed, and with a small bag of candy and snacks for later, for around $11.
Pick up a bento box and some sweet pastries on your way up to Central Park and you can have a great picnic in the park. They also have some tables up front to devour your food at before heading back to work.
4 stars for the grocery store
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Review from erica jade l.
New York, NY
12/18/2006
Morinaga Hi-Chew! (you have to shout when you're saying it) These little suckers are the culprit for all of my cavities.
Besides those and other Japanese candy delights you can find a plethora of prepared and packaged foods here at the Super Fantastic Sunrise Mart! (I feel like I'm on a game show). The lunch boxes are all fresh and delicious and there's a million different kinds of drinks to choose from. So if you're shopping in Soho and you're sick of the crowds at Ben's or Duke's, stroll down here to have a nice quiet and relatively inexpensive lunch. -
Review from Emily K.
New York, NY
12/12/2006
Nice selection of Japanese groceries -- everything from snacks to natto packets to rice to frozen foods to prepackaged lunches (bento boxes) and onigiri. A good shelf of various ramen and other instant noodle sets, too.
On the second floor, you can find miscellaneous bathroom items, video rentals, and other random accessories. Convenient, good service, good food/selection... what's not to like? -
Review from Kaoru U.
New York, NY
11/17/2009
My go-to place for Japanese food.
They have everything from multiple types of instant ramen (perfect for my late night snack), sashimi slabs, takowasa, natto, food to take out, etc. Its the perfect "convenient store" (aka. konbini) from Japan.
Keeps the Japanese in me satisfied. :)Listed in: My Neighborhood
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Review from Brenda M.
New York, NY
1/27/2011 2 photos
Small specialty japanese market with a great selection of prepared food. I ordered the Shoyu ramen $8.50 since I love soup during cold weather. It was delicious! Great place to grab lunch, especially if you work nearby. They have everything from sushi, to pork cutlet to hamburgers if thats your preference. I enjoyed my ramen and was glad to be passing by!
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